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When I see a plan straight from Obamma with a bunch of entitlements cut back, and a big reduction in spending, and the realization many folks (the folks that pay zero in taxes) need to have skin in the tax situation....
Bet no one cares when they invest or have a 401K the taxing rate will jump to about 25% from 15% . How about the Ten Billion of cash sitting off shore by Obamma buddy Eric Schmidt of GOOGLE, up for CABINET POST, AND NO TAXES PAID BY GENERAL ELECTRIC , another buddy of Obamma .

One might point fingers all around. Is that to big a point for some to grasp ? Got more but, why bother.

Portland Native...
Not wanting to pick nits, but the big box should be 153x larger than the smaller one if proportionality is what you seek.
You got so clever with your first pun (wow, NEVER heard Boehner referred to as THAT before... sarc off), your math skills clouded a little.
Cheers, it's Mike

Yup, the top 10% paying 70% of income taxes is just not enough...
Honestly though the bottom 50% shouldn't even pay taxes, what's the point of harassing those people for 2.75% of the budget. What is clear is a spending problem.

David - Strategically that may be a good move, as blocking him and then trying to make him own 'it' didn't really work out as planned.

Many things happened in the election, but I think a lot of people didn't blame the president for the economic issues because his big moves to fix it were blocked. Still, Obama was beatable but for the wacky GOP primary that weakened Mitt by forcing him to go a bit fringy on some issues.

That was a tangent, but I see that as the story of the election. Failure to assign blame, and a candidate weakened by his primary.

McConnell called for a vote on a proposal allowing the president to override the debt ceiling and giving the president unlimited borrowing authority. Harry Reid quickly agreed to the vote -- at which point McConnell, who'd proposed the vote, had to pull out his trusty filibuster in order to block his own proposal.